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Kevin McKenna MP
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Labour MP for Sittingbourne & Sheppey and former nurse. For help & support please email kevin.mckenna.mp@parliament.uk with your name and address.
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The Government coming off X is the bare minimum and realistically at this point I think we should seriously be looking at taking enforcement action against the company, in line with the Online Safety Act and VAWG Strategy. I will be pressing the Government on this when Parliament returns next week.
January 2, 2026 at 9:26 PM
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There is, to my mind, no justification for the continued use by the UK Government of X as a platform for official comms. There hasn't been for some time, in fact, but if the latest developments around AI-generated image abuse and CSAM don't change the policy I really don't know what will.
January 2, 2026 at 9:18 PM
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𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐆𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐧𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐦𝐮𝐬𝐭 𝐪𝐮𝐢𝐭 𝐗/𝐓𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐧𝐨𝐰.

Musk’s platform is proving itself a vile cesspit: its AI generating sexually explicit images of children is horrifying.

Every day we tolerate this, we weaken our democracies and endanger our future.

www.newsweek.com/grok-apology...
Elon Musk's Grok apologizes after generating sexual images of young girls
The incident has renewed concerns about sexualized images being made of women with their consent.
www.newsweek.com
January 2, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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X/grok creating and platforming sexually explicit material of children isn’t just a lapse, it’s criminal.

Elon Musk and his companies should be held to account.

It’s been over a year since I dumped X. It was the right decision then and even more so now. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
Grok Posts Sexual Images of Minors After ‘Lapses in Safeguards’
Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said “lapses in safeguards” led to the generation of sexualized images of minors that it posted to social media site X.
www.bloomberg.com
January 2, 2026 at 11:48 AM
Sheesh it’s cold outside here. Gone back inside into the living-room for more champers and maybe a hot chocolate

Saying farewell to my Dad along with 2025, it was an intense one, but very ready for 2026 now its here. Happy New Year everyone!
January 1, 2026 at 12:25 AM
“post a perfect album from the 90s that isn't nirvana, pearl jam, soundgarden, or alice in chains”

Of all their stuff in that decade, even Very, this is their most cogent work
December 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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In 2025 the Labour government helped deliver £20billion in military exports.

Deals with our allies have secured thousands of jobs across the UK, keep Britain strong and help prove that defence is an engine for growth 🇬🇧

www.thetimes.com/article/50e2...
UK sells £20bn of defence exports amid threat of Russian war
More than 25,000 British jobs have been supported through deals with Norway, Turkey and other European partners
www.thetimes.com
December 26, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Finally the extendable leaf of last year’s dining room table proves its worth. Now for that bit in the Christmas board game cycle where we spend an hour and a half misremembering the rules before even getting started
December 26, 2025 at 6:56 PM
The Telegraph having a perfectly normal one this Boxing Day I see

I’m pretty sure most people can manage a walk in the country without ripping foxes limb from limb by ‘accident’
December 26, 2025 at 10:27 AM
The ham’s roasted, the cake is decorated, all other jobs done. Only two episodes of Box of Delights left to watch, tried two new festive cocktails, just listening to Britten’s St. Nicholas cantata and I’m chilling in a bath with a Lush bath-bomb doing its thing.

Not too shabby overall for today
December 24, 2025 at 8:47 PM
I’m 51, had a fairly full on life so far and wound up as a bloody Member of Parliament of all things. Trust me I’d better have earned the right to show my age by now, and also be uncool or otherwise as required
"Until recently, I wasn’t aware that there was such a seismic gap between how my tween texts and how I text. But I was wrong"

Read more: trib.al/S6Dp2eo
December 24, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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Merry Christmas from everyone at Terrence Higgins Trust! 🎄🎄

2025 has been an incredible year. We achieved a huge amount because of your support.

There’s still so much more to do in 2026. But together we will make it happen.
December 24, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This is great. Paul and all the doorkeepers really are fantastically kind and skilled, managing our nonsense with the right level of humour and cool

Till I got there, I hadn’t grasped how many thousands of visitors there in Parliament each day. It takes quite some machine for it to run so smoothly
Senior doorkeeper Paul Kehoe helps keep the magic of Parliament running behind the scenes 🎅✨

Paul has worked in the House of Commons since he was 19 years old, for more than 46 years

It was an absolute joy to interview him about his lifetime of service
'Parliament Is A Family': Senior Doorkeeper Paul Kehoe On Nearly 50 Years In Westminster
For decades, Paul Kehoe has served successive parliaments with discretion, dedication and good humour. From being kissed by Mo Mowlam to fishing a ...
www.politicshome.com
December 23, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Hurrah! Christmas is saved, in our house at least. Very annoying this doesn’t seem to be on streaming anywhere this year.

Can’t really do the Christmas build up properly without it

#TheBoxOfDelights
December 22, 2025 at 8:22 PM
Rather excellent thread

Let’s be very clear here. This is exactly why it was exceptionally unwise of the Supreme Court to wade into this space using ‘biological sex’ as a defining concept, because as soon as you talk to actual biologists the simple binary unravels. Not a stable basis for law.
Hey, fellow evolutionary biologists:

If you support trans rights, like, comment, or repost this. I want to show that transphobes like Richard Dawkins are a loud minority that does not represent our community
And that’s a follow.

Actually I do have a question if you have a sec.

Without exception the most transphobic group of scientists I’ve run into online are evolutionary biologists. Every single one of them has expressed the same opinion: transness cannot be anything other than social contagion. Why?
December 22, 2025 at 8:17 PM
I'm urging resident doctors to end their strike action this Christmas. Healthcare is a team effort, let’s put patients first and give everyone a healthy Christmas.
December 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
This morning in the House of Commons, I raised the assault on Swale Borough Council that took place last night. The Speaker responded firmly: ‘Attacks on our democracy are unacceptable'.
December 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
Last night’s assault on Swale House was an attack on free speech. Read my full statement on the events that took place below.
December 11, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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The House of Lords must not be allowed to block the clear and settled will of elected Members of Parliament

Those peers who’ve tabled countless wrecking amendments to the Assisted Dying Bill are bringing Parliament into disrepute and undermining the very fabric of our democracy

They must give way
Peers’ delay of assisted dying bill ‘could lead to constitutional crisis’
Opponents are playing with fire with 1,100 amendments, critics say, as filibuster tactics to defeat Kim Leadbeater’s law ‘threaten the upper chamber’s future’
www.thetimes.com
December 7, 2025 at 9:06 AM
I could take this a lot more seriously if pretty much every one of their previous front pages ever hadn’t in some way been about entrenching rather than overcoming health inequalities

I look forward to their Damascene conversion to progressive healthcare bearing fruit but won’t hold my breath
Daily Mail: DEMENTIA KILLS 1 IN 9. IT’S TIME TO END CRUEL INJUSTICES #TomorrowsPapersToday
December 5, 2025 at 10:34 PM
🎄Advent day 5
HeatherHouse CC are hosting a family fun day tomorrow between 10:30am and 5:30pm.
What to expect 👇
🎅Santa's grotto
🖍️Games and crafts
🍰Refreshments
🎟️Raffles and prizes
#sittingbourne #sheppey
December 5, 2025 at 2:51 PM
🎄Advent Day 4
🚂The amazing Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway are running special Sata rides every weekend before Christmas. If you would like to go book using the link below.👇
www.sklr.net
December 4, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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This is vile and so so wrong. GB News is the TV version of X.

Extreme racism like this should not be platformed as ‘news.’

It is absolutely disgusting and another attempt to drag ‘debate’ to the right and destabilise our democracy.
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 7:53 PM
🎄 Advent Day 3
Everyone deserves safe and secure housing especially at Christmas. That’s why the Labour government passed the Renters’ Rights Bill, scrapping no-fault evictions and giving renters greater security in their homes.
December 3, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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Thanks @kevinmckenna.co.uk for inspiring reflections on #HIV… views from the coal face of lived experience, healthcare delivery & politics… a potent cocktail! We need more voices, commitment to ongoing advocacy, & funding for #research & #implementation.
#WorldAIDSDay @crick.ac.uk @england.nhs.uk 🧪
December 3, 2025 at 8:44 AM